Dr Vangelis Koukis

NameVangelis Koukis

OrganisationGRNET

Job titleTechnical Lead, ~okeanos cloud

BioVangelis Koukis received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from NTUA in 2010. His research focused on the interaction between OS and architectures, scheduling for scalable clustered systems, high-performance cluster interconnection networks, and shared block-level storage. Currently, he is working with GRNET as the Technical Lead of the ~okeanos project. ~okeanos is GRNET’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service public cloud, providing cloud computing services to the Greek research and academic community since 2011. He is one of the core developers of Synnefo, the opensource software powering ~okeanos, and is responsible for coordinating the operation of the various development groups within Synnefo.